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From: smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: warning re shipping stuff home
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Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 22:03:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 22:03:43 1985
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA rduxb!smh

> > In London we bought two sports jackets (about $200).  We naively
> > asked to have them shipped.  We paid about $20 to the store,
> > AND an unexpected 18% duty when the package was delivered.
> 
> I shipped home several hundred dollars worth of stuff, including wool
> sweaters, from Denmark a few months ago.  I've forgotten the shipping
> charges (not large enough to make an impression, I assume), but no
> duty was collected.  This must vary by country of origin, or else US
> Snail slipped up.  Maybe someone who knows the rules could enlighten us.

Check with Customs, but the rule you want used to read like this:
You are allowed to send home duty free $50 per day in merchandise to
each different address.  What we do is have friends agree to accept
packages from us while we are gone.  We send each package to a different
address to avoid having any 2 packages come to the same address on the same
day.  While in Australia and New Zealand we accumulated books and
tourist information which we didn't want to carry home so we sent it
home by the cheapest way possible.  It worked out great.